Sony DADC Australia

About

Sony DADC Australia was a full-service technology and solution provider for optical media, offering services from the traditional replication business to printing services, disc mastering, and digital asset management. The plant was known as SMEA (Sony Music Entertainment Australia) from 1995-2005, after which time Sony Disc Manufacturing unified all its international manufacturing facilities (excluding Japan) under the Sony DADC moniker. The registered company behind the manufacturing plant, Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) Limited, was renamed Sony DADC Australia Pty Limited on 16 November 2005, and the 'SMEA' name was dropped from the disc matrix shortly afterward (although the Sony DADC name may have been adopted prior to November for DVDs manufactured in Australia as part of the worldwide rebranding effort). Blu-Ray production at this site began in February 2009. In late 2017, Sony DADC Australia Pty Limited went into an agreement with Technicolor Pty Limited (Technicolor, Australia) to allow Technicolor exclusive right to provide manufacturing, assembly, and packaging for Sony DADC in Australia and New Zealand for 5 years, effective February 12, 2018. Sony DADC Australia has remained active since then and continues to offer manufacturing services to the film and music industries, however this is now outsourced to Technicolor and Sony DADC's own plant in Huntingwood has closed. Sales and distribution are handled from two premises in western Sydney. Identification: Sony DADC Australia may be named in full in the matrix. In some cases, the matrix may simply name Sony DADC, or there may be no reference to Sony DADC at all. In such cases, Sony DADC Australia can be identified by its unique matrix numbering scheme and SID codes (see below). Discs manufactured for Universal Music Australia and its subsidiaries often carry a Universal logo followed by the text 'ANZ'. Example: Matrix numbers: 2005-06: CDs: 01#### (or for 2CD sets, 02#### on the second disc; this scheme was continued from predecessor name SMEA); Example: DVDs: ######A### / ######B### ; Example: 2006-18: A##########X#### (notable for the use of X rather than a dash - as found in Sony DADC Austria glass masters; the chronology also differs from Austrian glass master numbering); Example: A##########-#### (the chronology differs from Austrian glass master numbering); Example: Mastering SID codes: IFPI L681, LV87, LV88, LV89, LV90, LV91 Mould SID codes: IFPI 65** Please note: some discs (usually DVDs or BDs) replicated by Sony DADC Australia (identified by mould SID code IFPI 65**) may have glass masters/stampers manufactured by Sony DADC in Austria - identified by mastering SID codes IFPI L55*, LY2*. In such cases, please credit Sony DADC with Glass Mastered At and Sony DADC Australia with Pressed By. Example: